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Jane Austen: Stories that changed everything

Austen lived a quiet life in the English countryside, where her social experiences and family dramas inspired her novels. During her lifetime, she published four books that gained significant ...
TRT World

Indiana Senate rejects Trump-backed congressional redistricting plan

The Indiana Senate has rejected a new congressional map backed by US President Donald Trump, dealing a setback to his push to reshape electoral districts ahead of next year’s midterm elections. The ...
Newsweek

World Map Shows Deadliest Wars in 2025

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) recorded 204,605 conflict events from December 1, 2024 to November 28, 2025, resulting in over 240,000 deaths, in its newly released Conflict ...
Nature

Giant 3D map shows almost every building in the world

Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world. The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for ...
Gizmodo

Literally a Map Showing All the Buildings in the World

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...
The Economist

A world map of childhood obesity

IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...
The Washington Post

Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...
The Business Journals

1818 Market St. sent to receivership with $239.5M debt

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The nearly 1 million-square-foot ...
CNN

African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent’s true size

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...
Reuters

African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been refiled to clarify the number of AU member states in paragraph 3) The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments ...